Re: Fast massive ldif load
Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.openldap.general |
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--On October 7, 2009 11:09:18 PM +0200 Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> >> >> --On October 7, 2009 3:32:51 PM -0400 Aaron Richton >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, iz1ksw iz1ksw wrote: >>> >>>> What is the fastest way (in terms of openldap settings) to perform a >>>> massive load (~200MB ldif file) of data into openldap directory? >>> >>> Try "slapadd -q" (read slapadd(8) man page to get started). >> >> slapadd -q is important, but so is having a large enough BDB cache in >> the DB_CONFIG file, plus setting the right number of tool threads. I >> took a load down from 17 hours to less than 2 hours adjusting all of >> those correctly and adding -q. > > The LDIF file is only 200Mb large. It should be a matter of minutes to > load it on a decent machine, even when using the standard parameters :) There is not a 1 to 1 correlation between LDIF file size and resulting database size. My LDIF file was 300MB and the resulting database was 12.5 GB. --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration